Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand

ScienceDaily
Jun 23, 2026, 3:30 am121 ptsTrending
A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancestor of the kākāpō. The discovery reveals that volcanoes and climate upheaval were reshaping the country’s wildlife and driving extinctions long before humans arrived.

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